Influenza Deaths 2019 Australia

Probably due to the extra precautions social distancing etc taken to protect from the covid 19 coronavirus an interesting observation is the numbers of deaths from the flu and covid 19 in the 2019 and 2020 years.

Influenza deaths 2019 australia. Last year there were over. However it could equal or surpass the 2018 2019 season s 34 200 flu related deaths. The latest figures show there have been nearly 59 000 laboratory confirmed notifications of influenza in australia for 2019 while close to 100 deaths have been recorded across nsw south australia and victoria. Experts warn the escalating death toll has occurred months before the official flu season is due to start next week.

Of those 5 5 million have recovered and 500 000 have died. In the case of the flu individuals over 65 accounted for approximately 75 percent of flu deaths during the 2018 2019 flu season while approximately 80 percent of coronavirus deaths came from. The number of flu influenza cases in australia during 2020 has been substantially lower than in 2019. Queensland premier annastacia palaszczuk on saturday said the state had recorded 36 874 cases of flu by the same time period in 2019.

Numbers of flu cases in australia. More than 10 million cases of covid 19 have been confirmed. Influenza still dwarfs covid 19 deaths covid 19 has killed more than 500 000 people since the outbreak began in late 2019 but the figure still hasn t caught up to seasonal influenza which causes up to 650 000 deaths per year. Australia has not recorded any flu deaths since april with only 36 deaths recorded this year compared to 430 in the same period last year experts say school closures physical distancing hand hygiene and border closures all played a part in reducing the number of flu cases.

173 3m doses of influenza vaccine distributed sufficient for 53 of population so far 10 000 people have died and 180 000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019 2020 flu season according to preliminary estimates from the cdc. While 2019 saw the highest number of influenza cases across the country 2017 still holds the record for the highest number of flu related deaths with over 1 100 cases. As of august 2 there had been 12 deaths in nsw this year from influenza and none recorded since april compared to 127 deaths in 2019.